The camera software is impeccable: "One feature, Time Shift, is mind-blowing."

It's perfect for corporate workers: "If a company has BlackBerry’s corporate software suite, they can create separate worlds on each phone: personal and work, with distinct calendars, address books, wallpaper and even app collections."

Some flaws: "There’s no physical silencer switch (only a software function). In the Mail app, you can’t move from one message to the next without returning to the In-box in between. The calendar views don’t rotate when you turn the phone, and you can’t drag appointments to reschedule them. When you’ve used the faux Siri to dictate a message or e-mail, you can’t edit it, even manually. And the battery barely makes it through a day."